196 CHARLES CARDALE BABINGTON. [1860—61 



Sept. 8. Walked round the lakes with Busk, 



Sept. 10. Went on to the mountains above the old road to 

 Carnarvon, in search of perched blocks, and found several very 

 large ones ; then to Dinas Dinorwig to complete my plan ; then to 

 Castel, near Plas Pentre, a flat-topped mound with graduated ascent ; 

 then by the slate quarries to Dolbadarn. 



Sept. 11. About the lakes botanizing. 



Sept. 12. With Busk to the Llanberis Pass. 



Sept. 18. Went to see a perched block of quartz on the rounded 

 mound of rock by the Pen-y-Llyn toll-gate. Afterwards to one on 

 the very edge of the cliffs between Derlwyn and Pen Careg-y-fran 

 above Llyn Peris. 



Sept. 20. Went up Snowdon with the Busks. 



Sept. 24. Busk, his brother Charles, and I went with John 

 Roberts, the guide, to Cwm Glas, by ascending highly on Snowdon, 

 and descending into it. We went as far as the saddle of turf by 

 Crib Coch, and descended into Llanberis Pass. 



Sept. 25. The same party went to Twll Du and Llyn-y-Cwm. 



Sept. 28. To Somerleaze, near Wells, to visit E. A. Freeman. 



Sept. 29. To Wells with J. H. Parker and Freeman ; examining 

 the Cathedral and Vicar's close. 



Oct. 1. Examined hut-circles on Pen Knowle; visited Battle- 

 bury, Castle Hill, and by Coxley and Tilbury to Somerleaze. 



Oct. 2. Gathered Arctium tomentosum by ditches near Battlebury. 



Oct. 3. To Evercreech, to see the church, and meet Parker. 

 Visited the old houses, hall, and church at Crosscombe on the way 

 back. 



Oct. 6. Cambridge. 



Dec. 25. The temperature fell to 3^° at the outside of my rooms 

 at 8.30 a.m. this morning. (N.B. — This was the frost which did so 

 much harm to the evergreens at Cambridge and elsewhere). At 

 the Observatory, the lowest temperature was 3f°. 



1861. April 22. Walked to Gogmagog Hills. Anemone 

 Pulsatilla in beauty, and great abundance in the pit at Little Trees 

 Hill. Went round to the south-east of park ; to Copley Hill, where 

 is an abundance of the little Viola hirta ; back by Woolstreet and 

 Wort's Causeway. Went to seek for Carex ericetoi'um, but found only 

 C. praecox. 



May 3. Went to London, to the meeting of the Council of the 

 British Association, and returned in the evening. 



May 28. Went the same round as on April 22nd, and found 

 the Carex ericetorum, one patch, by the south side of the Woolstreet, 



